So I had to get up early today to check out the Game Developers Talk by the team behind the music titled Scoring Hell.

The scoring of Dante's Inferno was influenced by many different composers and conductors, but the biggest influences were polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Austrian composer György Sándor Ligeti (some of his work was featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut) and American avante-garde composer George Crumb.

Here's a taste of what that means in terms of scoring the opening scenes of the game.

This sample is a taste of the music played during the Storm of Lust, the tornado of human bodies you come across in the circle of hell dealing with lust. The idea here, they say, was to to lean on something late romantic like Brahms, big and operatic.